Public life shows our yearning to recapture simplicity

0 Comments | Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Apr 3, 2005 | by Brad Rourke Christian Science Monitor

Those of us on our sofas, wishing real life was more like "The West Wing," ought to look around and grab onto these stories. They ought to bring true hope, because they are believable. They tell us that just speaking up isn't enough; we'll need to do the hard work of persevering, too. Improvements won't come about in the space of 60 minutes minus commercials, nor even in the space of one television season. But they will come.

We don't need to move to the Village to hold onto its ideals. We just need to go looking for them here, in the Towns.

Brad Rourke is a consultant who works on ethics and civic issues. See his web site at www.bradrourke.com